A Medical Revolutionary in Medicine.
Samuel Hahnemann: A Medical Revolutionary In medicine's long and varied history, few figures are as controversial, and equally as influential as Samuel Hahnemann. While medicine in the 18th and 19th centuries was a brutal practice, the medical community still had some reservations when it came to extreme treatments. Hahnemann proposed an entirely new system, centered around a gentle approach to medicine, patient individualisation and the human body's natural ability to heal itself. These concepts would become the foundation of homeopathy, a practice still used worldwide today. He also went against the trends of contemporary medicine. At this point in history medical practice relied heavily on the use of bleeding, purgatives and various poisons (mercury, for example)-and Hahnemann asked himself if such methods actually helped anyone. In an age when there were no clinical trials and no knowledge of modern disease-all treatment was empirical; that is, carried out on tradition alone. Hahnemann refused to operate on tradition, he carried out the principles of medicine on observation, experimentation and rational inquiry. The driving principle of Hahnemann's medicine was similia similibus curentur – the 'like cures like principle,' based on the belief that substances which produce symptoms in a healthy person may cure similar symptoms when administered in minimal quantities to a sick person. It removed the emphasis on disease and focused instead on symptoms and the individual. From this he introduced several other concepts; individualisation, the principle of using minimal doses to avoid ill effects and observation through proving methods, whereby healthy individuals take various substances in various doses and record symptoms. Above all, it was Hahnemann's human-centered approach to medicine that was perhaps his greatest contribution, treating the individual as opposed to the disease.
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